Pedro Godoy
@pedrolgodoy.bsky.social
Paleontologist and Evolutionary Biologist. Assistant Professor at @uspoficial.bsky.social 🇧🇷. Phylogenetics Editor of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. He/him
https://www.macropaleolab.com/
https://www.macropaleolab.com/
Really proud of the excellent final course presentations by our lab's undergrad students! From marine turtles to snakes of all kinds, their projects were super interesting (and the slides were amazing!). Huge congrats Jorge, Gabriela and Sofia!
November 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Really proud of the excellent final course presentations by our lab's undergrad students! From marine turtles to snakes of all kinds, their projects were super interesting (and the slides were amazing!). Huge congrats Jorge, Gabriela and Sofia!
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Happy #FossilFriday! Interested in fossil data handling & building analysis-ready databases? New paper out today in Palaeontology @thepalass.bsky.social with @palaeoverse.bsky.social team led by @lewisajones.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Hope it helps! 💻📊📈🦐🦪🦣🐚🪸🦕🦖🐋🐊🐟🦑🐢🐍🦎🐦⬛🦂
Hope it helps! 💻📊📈🦐🦪🦣🐚🪸🦕🦖🐋🐊🐟🦑🐢🐍🦎🐦⬛🦂
Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology
Large datasets of fossil occurrences, often downloaded from online community-maintained databases, are a vital resource for understanding broad-scale evolutionary patterns, such as how biodiversity h...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Happy #FossilFriday! Interested in fossil data handling & building analysis-ready databases? New paper out today in Palaeontology @thepalass.bsky.social with @palaeoverse.bsky.social team led by @lewisajones.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Hope it helps! 💻📊📈🦐🦪🦣🐚🪸🦕🦖🐋🐊🐟🦑🐢🐍🦎🐦⬛🦂
Hope it helps! 💻📊📈🦐🦪🦣🐚🪸🦕🦖🐋🐊🐟🦑🐢🐍🦎🐦⬛🦂
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We provide guidance on cleaning fossil occurrence data in preparation for palaeobiological analyses, covering project setup, data exploration and cleaning, and finalising and reporting work. To accompany the article, we've made available a vignette, with worked examples:
tenrules.palaeoverse.org
tenrules.palaeoverse.org
October 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
We provide guidance on cleaning fossil occurrence data in preparation for palaeobiological analyses, covering project setup, data exploration and cleaning, and finalising and reporting work. To accompany the article, we've made available a vignette, with worked examples:
tenrules.palaeoverse.org
tenrules.palaeoverse.org
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Just in time for #FossilFriday! Our paper is out today in Palaeontology @thepalass.bsky.social
Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology 🧹🦕
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Another great @palaeoverse.bsky.social team effort to offer a community resource!
Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology 🧹🦕
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Another great @palaeoverse.bsky.social team effort to offer a community resource!
Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology
Large datasets of fossil occurrences, often downloaded from online community-maintained databases, are a vital resource for understanding broad-scale evolutionary patterns, such as how biodiversity h...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Just in time for #FossilFriday! Our paper is out today in Palaeontology @thepalass.bsky.social
Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology 🧹🦕
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Another great @palaeoverse.bsky.social team effort to offer a community resource!
Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology 🧹🦕
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Another great @palaeoverse.bsky.social team effort to offer a community resource!
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New findings in Science suggest that rodents owe much of their evolutionary success to their thumb-nail (the first digit, D1), an adaptation that gave them dexterous hands for cracking seeds and nuts.
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/46caVho
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/46caVho
September 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
New findings in Science suggest that rodents owe much of their evolutionary success to their thumb-nail (the first digit, D1), an adaptation that gave them dexterous hands for cracking seeds and nuts.
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/46caVho
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/46caVho
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Huge thanks to @palaeopercs.bsky.social for inviting and hosting me! If you missed my talk on Tuesday, you can now catch up via their YouTube channel 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x19X...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x19X...
September 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Huge thanks to @palaeopercs.bsky.social for inviting and hosting me! If you missed my talk on Tuesday, you can now catch up via their YouTube channel 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x19X...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x19X...
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New paper in which we evaluate how we can use information on past extinction events to better contextualise the ongoing anthropogenic extinction, led by @anthropocenebio.bsky.social (with @bethanyjallen.bsky.social, @inesismartins.bsky.social, & others): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
September 4, 2025 at 10:27 AM
New paper in which we evaluate how we can use information on past extinction events to better contextualise the ongoing anthropogenic extinction, led by @anthropocenebio.bsky.social (with @bethanyjallen.bsky.social, @inesismartins.bsky.social, & others): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Our paper on rodent thumbnails is out! Big team effort, powered by museum collections. Turns out, nails can reveal a lot about rodent evolution. Shoutout to Dr. Gordon Shepherd for the wild idea to study rodents thumbs!
New findings in Science suggest that rodents owe much of their evolutionary success to their thumb-nail (the first digit, D1), an adaptation that gave them dexterous hands for cracking seeds and nuts.
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/46caVho
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/46caVho
September 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Our paper on rodent thumbnails is out! Big team effort, powered by museum collections. Turns out, nails can reveal a lot about rodent evolution. Shoutout to Dr. Gordon Shepherd for the wild idea to study rodents thumbs!
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You can be proud! They were all amazing!!! 🤩
Proud supervisor moment! 🥹🤩
So incredible to watch our undergrad students from the lab shine in front of such a knowledgeable audience at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social. They absolutely crushed it and I couldn’t be prouder!
@fernandalandim.bsky.social, Anna Clara Annes, Jorge Silva and Gabriela Karam.
So incredible to watch our undergrad students from the lab shine in front of such a knowledgeable audience at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social. They absolutely crushed it and I couldn’t be prouder!
@fernandalandim.bsky.social, Anna Clara Annes, Jorge Silva and Gabriela Karam.
August 3, 2025 at 7:33 AM
You can be proud! They were all amazing!!! 🤩
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No, it is not a dream. This actually happened!!! We had a *fantastic* #CPEGCPB26 meeting and I cannot articulate any other adjective to describe it until I recover from it. Thanks to everyone who attended and everyone who helped making this happen. @kristinakocakova.bsky.social
August 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM
No, it is not a dream. This actually happened!!! We had a *fantastic* #CPEGCPB26 meeting and I cannot articulate any other adjective to describe it until I recover from it. Thanks to everyone who attended and everyone who helped making this happen. @kristinakocakova.bsky.social
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Fóssil de tartaruga marinha de 50 milhões de anos é o primeiro vertebrado fóssil nomeado na Síria. A Syriemys lelunensis recua a origem do grupo Stereogenyini em mais de 10 milhões de anos
Pesquisadores encontram fóssil inédito de tartaruga marinha na Síria
Coletada em Aleppo, "Syriemys lelunensis" é a primeira nova espécie de vertebrado extinto já descrita do país e corresponde ao registro mais antigo de sua linhagem no mundo
jornal.usp.br
August 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Fóssil de tartaruga marinha de 50 milhões de anos é o primeiro vertebrado fóssil nomeado na Síria. A Syriemys lelunensis recua a origem do grupo Stereogenyini em mais de 10 milhões de anos
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We are honored on #FossilFriday to receive an Apex publication award for our Special Issue on comparative and functional anatomy of Triassic tetrapods: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494...
Editors Felipe Pinheiro, Flávio Pretto & Leonardo Kerber. Cover artwork by Márcio L. Castro
Editors Felipe Pinheiro, Flávio Pretto & Leonardo Kerber. Cover artwork by Márcio L. Castro
August 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
We are honored on #FossilFriday to receive an Apex publication award for our Special Issue on comparative and functional anatomy of Triassic tetrapods: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494...
Editors Felipe Pinheiro, Flávio Pretto & Leonardo Kerber. Cover artwork by Márcio L. Castro
Editors Felipe Pinheiro, Flávio Pretto & Leonardo Kerber. Cover artwork by Márcio L. Castro
Aaaaand, on the top of all that, @fernandalandim.bsky.social won the best standard talk prize!!! 🤩🤩🤩🥹🎉
Proud supervisor moment! 🥹🤩
So incredible to watch our undergrad students from the lab shine in front of such a knowledgeable audience at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social. They absolutely crushed it and I couldn’t be prouder!
@fernandalandim.bsky.social, Anna Clara Annes, Jorge Silva and Gabriela Karam.
So incredible to watch our undergrad students from the lab shine in front of such a knowledgeable audience at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social. They absolutely crushed it and I couldn’t be prouder!
@fernandalandim.bsky.social, Anna Clara Annes, Jorge Silva and Gabriela Karam.
August 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Aaaaand, on the top of all that, @fernandalandim.bsky.social won the best standard talk prize!!! 🤩🤩🤩🥹🎉
Proud supervisor moment! 🥹🤩
So incredible to watch our undergrad students from the lab shine in front of such a knowledgeable audience at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social. They absolutely crushed it and I couldn’t be prouder!
@fernandalandim.bsky.social, Anna Clara Annes, Jorge Silva and Gabriela Karam.
So incredible to watch our undergrad students from the lab shine in front of such a knowledgeable audience at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social. They absolutely crushed it and I couldn’t be prouder!
@fernandalandim.bsky.social, Anna Clara Annes, Jorge Silva and Gabriela Karam.
August 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Proud supervisor moment! 🥹🤩
So incredible to watch our undergrad students from the lab shine in front of such a knowledgeable audience at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social. They absolutely crushed it and I couldn’t be prouder!
@fernandalandim.bsky.social, Anna Clara Annes, Jorge Silva and Gabriela Karam.
So incredible to watch our undergrad students from the lab shine in front of such a knowledgeable audience at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social. They absolutely crushed it and I couldn’t be prouder!
@fernandalandim.bsky.social, Anna Clara Annes, Jorge Silva and Gabriela Karam.
Super proud of our lab students for their final course presentations: Luan Estevão defended his MSc on elasmarian ornithischians; Kamila Lima presented a poster on her undergrad research in conservation paleobiology of freshwater turtles; and @fernandalandim.bsky.social and Pedro Kenji+
June 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Super proud of our lab students for their final course presentations: Luan Estevão defended his MSc on elasmarian ornithischians; Kamila Lima presented a poster on her undergrad research in conservation paleobiology of freshwater turtles; and @fernandalandim.bsky.social and Pedro Kenji+
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Can we just take a moment to appreciate turtle skeletons? 🐢🦴🤯 The original model of this gopher tortoise skeleton on Sketchfab (skfb.ly/ooVZS) is a crowd favorite & I've received requests for a downloadable version lately, so I uploaded a new one to MorphoSource: www.morphosource.org/concern/medi...
June 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Can we just take a moment to appreciate turtle skeletons? 🐢🦴🤯 The original model of this gopher tortoise skeleton on Sketchfab (skfb.ly/ooVZS) is a crowd favorite & I've received requests for a downloadable version lately, so I uploaded a new one to MorphoSource: www.morphosource.org/concern/medi...
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If anyone eligible is willing to come to Brazil for a postdoc in our lab (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships) feel free to reach out!
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/la...
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA PF) - Incoming/Outgoing
Everything you need to know about the PF call and application process. The call 2025 is open until 10 September.
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
May 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
If anyone eligible is willing to come to Brazil for a postdoc in our lab (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships) feel free to reach out!
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/la...
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/la...
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Pedro is a great researcher and an amazing person! What more could you ask for in a host? 😁
If anyone eligible is willing to come to Brazil for a postdoc in our lab (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships) feel free to reach out!
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/la...
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/la...
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA PF) - Incoming/Outgoing
Everything you need to know about the PF call and application process. The call 2025 is open until 10 September.
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
May 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Pedro is a great researcher and an amazing person! What more could you ask for in a host? 😁
If anyone eligible is willing to come to Brazil for a postdoc in our lab (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships) feel free to reach out!
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/la...
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/la...
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA PF) - Incoming/Outgoing
Everything you need to know about the PF call and application process. The call 2025 is open until 10 September.
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
May 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
If anyone eligible is willing to come to Brazil for a postdoc in our lab (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships) feel free to reach out!
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/la...
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/la...
I'm a bit late, since we were away for fieldwork, but check out our new paper on data equity in paleo, led by the amazing @emmadnn.bsky.social.
Delighted to share our paper on data equity in #palaeobiology as part of Paleobiology's 50th anniversary issue 🥳
We look at how palaeo data is collected, stored, curated & shared, and how equity in these processes is crucial for our field's future (1/n) 🧪⚒️
doi.org/10.1017/pab....
We look at how palaeo data is collected, stored, curated & shared, and how equity in these processes is crucial for our field's future (1/n) 🧪⚒️
doi.org/10.1017/pab....
May 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I'm a bit late, since we were away for fieldwork, but check out our new paper on data equity in paleo, led by the amazing @emmadnn.bsky.social.
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Delighted to share our paper on data equity in #palaeobiology as part of Paleobiology's 50th anniversary issue 🥳
We look at how palaeo data is collected, stored, curated & shared, and how equity in these processes is crucial for our field's future (1/n) 🧪⚒️
doi.org/10.1017/pab....
We look at how palaeo data is collected, stored, curated & shared, and how equity in these processes is crucial for our field's future (1/n) 🧪⚒️
doi.org/10.1017/pab....
April 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Delighted to share our paper on data equity in #palaeobiology as part of Paleobiology's 50th anniversary issue 🥳
We look at how palaeo data is collected, stored, curated & shared, and how equity in these processes is crucial for our field's future (1/n) 🧪⚒️
doi.org/10.1017/pab....
We look at how palaeo data is collected, stored, curated & shared, and how equity in these processes is crucial for our field's future (1/n) 🧪⚒️
doi.org/10.1017/pab....
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The MacroPaleo Lab has officially hit the field for the first time! It was tough, thrilling, and packed with adventure. Huge shoutout to our incredible field crew! Stay tuned—some fascinating discoveries are coming your way! 🦴 🦖 🪨 ⛏️
May 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The MacroPaleo Lab has officially hit the field for the first time! It was tough, thrilling, and packed with adventure. Huge shoutout to our incredible field crew! Stay tuned—some fascinating discoveries are coming your way! 🦴 🦖 🪨 ⛏️
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Congratulations to my friend Diego Pol for his well deserved induction into the Argentine National Academy of Science!
April 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Congratulations to my friend Diego Pol for his well deserved induction into the Argentine National Academy of Science!
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Me and @richardjbutler.bsky.social have a new review paper today in which we make the case for the importance of systematics, taxonomy and fieldwork in palaeo. You should read it: you'll like it
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
New frontiers in dinosaur exploration | Biology Letters
Two hundred years after the naming of the first dinosaur, taxonomic studies remain
an important component of dinosaur research. Around 50 new dinosaurs are named each
year and are discovered from acro...
royalsocietypublishing.org
April 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Me and @richardjbutler.bsky.social have a new review paper today in which we make the case for the importance of systematics, taxonomy and fieldwork in palaeo. You should read it: you'll like it
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Phylogenomics supports a single origin of terrestriality in isopods: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #ProcB #evolution #phylogenetics
May 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Phylogenomics supports a single origin of terrestriality in isopods: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #ProcB #evolution #phylogenetics